"African American Rap Music as a Transmedial Archive of Knowledge", Jahrestagung der DGFA, Bonn, May 2015.

"Beyond the ‘Working-Class Hero’: Forms and Functions of Everyday Heroism in American Popular Music after 9/11", Konferenz: Everyday Heroism in the United States, Germany, and Britain from the 19th to the 21st Century, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, März 2015.

"Looking For(ward) and Beyond the Black Atlantic: Contemporary African Immigration in the US and Germany" (mit Robert Reid-Pharr, CUNY), Konferenz: Looking Forward, 2014: Current Projects in American Studies, Berlin, November 2014.

"Motown in The Michigan Chronicle: Fan Culture and the Birth of the Fanzine?" Jahrestagung der Popular Culture Association (New Orleans, 2009)

"’Nobody Knows What White People Eat’: Whiteness and Cultural Difference in Contemporary North American Comedy." Konferenz der International Association of Inter-American Studies "Multiculturalism and Beyond: Identity Politics, Cultural Difference, and Hybridity in the Americas" (Bielefeld, 2009)

"’The Mammy and the Stud’ – Controlling Images and the Bio-Politics of Popular Culture?" European Summer School in Cultural Studies "Forms of Life: Artifice, Emergence, Generation" (Amsterdam, 2008)

"’If I Could Build My Whole World Around You’: How Motown ‚Made’ the Sixties" European Summer School in Cultural Studies "Ways of Worldmaking: Narratives, Archives, and Media" (Gießen und Heidelberg, 2007)

"Classics of the African American Short Story: Richard Wright’s `The Man Who Lived Underground´ and James Baldwin’s `Going to meet the Man´" in: Michael Basseler & Ansgar Nünning (Hrsg.) A History of the American Short Story: Genres – Classics – Model Interpretations. Trier, WVT, 2011.

"'If I Could Build My Whole World Around You': How Motown ‚Made’ the Sixties"; in: Nünning, Ansgar (Hrsg.) The Politics and Aesthetics of Cultural Worldmaking. Trier: WVT, 2010.